Rinderpest

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Rinderpest (also cattle plague or steppe murrain) was an infectious viral disease of cattle, domestic water buffalo, and many other species of even-toed ungulates, including gaurs, buffalo, bison, antelope, deer, giraffes, wildebeests, and warthogs. The disease was characterized by fever, oral erosions, diarrhea, lymphoid necrosis, and high mortality. Death rates during outbreaks were usually extremely high, approaching 100% in immunologically naïve populations. Rinderpest was mainly transmitted by direct contact and by drinking contaminated water, although it could also be transmitted by air. Rinderpest is believed to have originated in Asia, and to have spread by transport of cattle. The term Rinderpest (German: [ˈʁɪndɐpɛst] ) is a German word meaning "cattle plague". Rinderpest virus (RPV) belongs to the genus Morbillivirus, alongside measles virus – its closest relative – and canine distemper virus. The measles virus may have diverged from rinderpest around the 6th century BC, coinciding...

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